Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Book Club

My book club is reading HEROES by Paul Johnson--I volunteered to report on J Caesar--but after reading part of the book (simple-minded, shallow), I decided to not read the rest. Mae West a hero? Marilyn Monroe? Ronald Reagan? And no Ben Franklin, no Mark Twain, no Warren Buffett? Then I remembered who the author was: writes a column for Forbes. He's anti-evolution, among other things. It would take a nincompoop like Steve Forbes to find another world-class nincompoop to write a column for his magazine